Val Kilmer – MovieActors.com

Val's acting career began on stage, and he still participates in theatre; he played Hamlet at the 1988 Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Kilmer's film debut was in the 1984 spoof, Top Secret! (1984)

Val has played two more American legends, Elvis Presley, in True Romance (1993), and Doc Holliday, in Tombstone (1993).

Val Kilmer has played two legendary rock and roll musicians - Jim Morrison and Elvis Presley.

In 1997 Val Kilmer was Ranked #62 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. Kilmer is the youngest student ever accepted into Juillard's Drama Dept.

While filming The Doors in 1991, Val Kilmer broke his arm when he performed a jump from the stage into the crowd. Kilmer is the fifth actor to play Batman and he is the only blonde actor to have played Bruce Wayne/Batman.

In 1988's Willow, Val Kilmer does a variation on his trademark of twirling objects - he twirls a sword during the fight in the snow camp.

Kilmer coauthored the play How It All Began, performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, in 1981.